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through and punished his larger op
ponent severely in the last three
rounds.
Knockout Brown and Billy Miske
fought twelve rounds to a draw at
Winnipeg, Man., last night
Joe Rivers is training diligently for
his bout with Johnny Dundee in Mil
waukee Monday night The Califor
man knows his opponent is a tough
man, with a style that has baffled
every man who has gone up against
him. Joe will wind up his local work
Wednesday and taper off his training
in Milwaukee.
The regular weekly amateur box
nig tournament will be held at O'Con
nell's gymnasium, 500 S. State st,
tonight
This is an off week for Conference
football teams. The most important
local battle is between Northwestern
and Missouri at Evanston and the
Purple warriors have benefited by the
long rest they have had.
At the Midway Chicago meets Has
kell in a game to which little interest
is attached.
Illinois and Minnesota, the real con
tenders for the Conference title, hav.e
open Saturdays and can build grad
ually for the remaining big games.
The respite comes happily to both
elevens. Minnesota will have plenty
of time to work the cripples back in
condition. Bierman will surely start
in the Chicago game and that means
added strength to the Gopher attack.
Illinois will probably face Wiscon
sin with the most formidable team it
has shown all season. Clark's injur
ed jaw will have fully healed and the
dashing quarter can take his full part
in every movement Pogue, also, will
be in prime condition for this battle.
The Tllfni have been slowly coming to
top speed, but seem to have reached
the height at the most critical time.
Lorin Solon, playing with a Duluth
professional team, scored 29 of the
35 points his eleven made against a
St Paul aggregation. The ex-Gopher
gained at will.
Willie Hoppe ran 400 on his open-
'ing shot In a 14.2 billiard match
against Kojt Yamada at Hartford,
Conn.
Pierre Maupome defeated John
Moore, 50 to 44, in game of Inter
state Three-Cushion Billiard league
at Flenner's.
The management of the six-day
bicycle race at the Coliseum, which
will start on Friday night, Nov. 19,
will stage a preliminary race meet
the night revious. Three profession
al races, a mile handicap, a five-mile
open and a paced race will see the
professionals in action, while the am
ateurs will be seen in a half-mile han
dicap .and a three-mile open. Two
amateur races, a handicap and an
open race, will be staged previous to
the start of the long race, the Jocal
ites starring in a handicap at a half
mile and a five-mile open.
When officials of the British army
sent word to the United States that
Johnnie Poe, football "star and soldier
of fortune, was killed while fighting
with the allies on the northern
I boundary of France, they wrote the
last cnapter m the story of the most
remarkable life ever led by an ath
lete. Johnnie Poe was the first of a fam
ily of great football players to enter
Princeton. He was captain of the
Tiger team in 1892 and by a great
run defeated Yale. Leaving college
he entered a broker's office in New
York, but the excitement of Wall st.
did not satisfy him.
When the Spanish war broke out
he enlisted with the college troops
and vwas a hero in the rush up San
Juan hill. Then ie enlisted for three
years in. the United States regular
army and went to the Philippines as
a -lieutenant
Returning, he tried mining in Alas-
ka, then in Arizona. He became a
cowboy in Arizona and was promi-.
nent among the bandit chasers. He.
went to Central America and joined
in the big revolution there. Later
he joined the rebels in the Nicaragua-
1 Honduras revolution, was "taken, as 3.
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